by magdarose | Mar 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Here’s the poem we made today; great fun engaging customers in poetry! Spring Zeus extemporizing: spring has sprung over recently rain polished California. “Oops, I didn’t mean to meddle in your affairs.” How awkward riding with a rooster in a...
by magdarose | Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
it’s been a busy summer and one of the highlights was attending the third annual Catamaran Literary Conference and studying with Joseph Millar. Each day we wrote poems and re-visioned them during the workshop. Millar’s emphasis on the image as the most...
by magdarose | Feb 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m reading this year’s selections, and the guest editor is Sherman Alexie. I always look forward to the editor’s choices; they usually stretch my definition of best, and oftentimes I am not in agreement. This year, I would have to say that one huge oversight was...
by magdarose | Dec 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
What is the mysterious process by which one writes a poem? As we write, how do we uncover what is true, chipping away at all the other voices that may seem authentic, but might not be? It takes a certain amount of courage to believe that what we have to say is...
by Lakshmi Narayan | May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
After nearly three years of producing and hosting Poets’ Circle Poetry Reading Series at the Watsonville Public Library, the series has reached its conclusion. I would like to acknowledge all the featured readers, beginning in August of 2012 with T. Mike Walker and...
